Assignment name:

The Evaluation of the ‘Stamping Out and Preventing Gender Based Violence’ (STOP GBV)

Approx. value of the contract (in current US$):

GB £142,680

 

Country: Zambia

Location within country: Luapula province

Duration of assignment (months): 4

 

 

Name of Client: Oxford Policy Management (OPM); Busara Center for Behavioral Economics; DFID-USAID-funded

Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 39

 

Contact Person, Title/Designation, Tel. No./Address:

Chris Hearle, Oxford Policy Management Limited, Level 3, 52 Commarket Street, Oxford, OX1 3HJ, UK

Email: [email protected]

 

Start date (month/year): Feb 2019

Completion date (month/year): May 2019

No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 39

 

Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A

 

Name of senior professional staff of your consulting firm/organization involved and designation and/or functions performed (e.g. Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader):

Prof. Gelson Tembo – Survey Coordinator/Principal Investigator (PI); Nathan Tembo – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Fusya Goma, Qualitative Researcher; Chisangu Matome – Data Manager/IT Specialist; Festus Tembo – Financial Manager

 

Description of Project:

The Evaluation of the Stamping Out and Preventing Gender-Based Violence (STOP GBV) Programme (2012–2018) was an independent end-term assessment of a DFID–USAID jointly funded programme launched in 2012 (as a successor to USAID’s A Safer Zambia programme) to strengthen Zambia’s prevention of, and response to, GBV through a coordinated package led by three main implementing partners—World Vision (survivor support through One Stop Centres and related services), ZCCP (prevention and advocacy/social norms change), and WLSA (access to justice, including embedded paralegals and capacity-building for justice actors). The evaluation’s purpose was to generate evidence on whether the OSC model works and to identify what works (and what does not) in reducing GBV in Zambia, by verifying intended and unintended results and assessing implementation quality against the programme’s theory of change and results framework. It used a mixed-methods design—combining qualitative approaches (e.g., KIIs, FGDs, life histories, roundtables/community conversations and document review) with quantitative work (including analysis of routine programme/administrative data where available and primary quantitative measurement through community-study experiments such as list randomisation and mobile-lab messaging experiments to test GBV norms and behaviour change). The study also incorporated Value for Money (VfM) and cost-effectiveness considerations—particularly assessing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the OSC model and its underlying cost drivers. Finally, consistent with the ToR, it covered national-level issues with deeper field enquiry in eight pre-selected districts—Lusaka, Kafue, Choma, Mazabuka, Mumbwa, Katete, Chongwe, and Nakonde—while excluding the child marriage component, which was being evaluated separately..​ ​

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

The data collection firm (Palm Associates, as the national partner) was responsible for planning and implementing the full fieldwork package—mobilising and supervising trained local researchers; applying context-appropriate and survivor-sensitive data collection protocols; and conducting primary qualitative and quantitative data collection (including KIIs, roundtables/community conversations, focus group discussions, life histories, and any agreed quantitative extractions/measurements) while ensuring evidence is obtained directly from beneficiaries and service users. In addition, the firm was expected to manage the complete data handling workflow—daily debriefs, transcription of field notes, secure data capture, coding of qualitative data against the evaluation questions, and analysis using structured approaches (e.g., a framework matrix linking evidence to each evaluation question), with strong triangulation and quality assurance throughout. The firm also carried core safeguarding, ethics, and duty-of-care obligations: ensuring informed consent, confidentiality/anonymity, “do no harm” practices, referral/response protocols for distressed participants or disclosures, and full responsibility for staff and third-party safety/security (including briefings and risk management), as well as arranging all fieldwork logistics (meetings, transport, and accommodation). Palm Associates also supported the external Team Lead in preparing the required evaluation report deliverables.